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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 8, 1995
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Sleep can cure what ails you
Eating right will help prevent fatigue, too
By Joann Birk
Kansan staff writer
Like many KU students, Tom Connard has a part-time job, school work and very little time to get enough sleep and eat a balanced diet.
"I always have to work or start studying," said Connard, Greenville, S.C., junior. "Most of the time it's just easier to hit a fast food restaurant."
This scenario of little sleep and a poor diet sends many students to the doctor, complaining of fatigue and worrying that there is something wrong.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that fatigue was the most common complaint because it was a symptom of many illnesses.
Students' first worry usually is that they have mononucleosis or anemia, Yockey said. Yockey said he first tried to rule out the possibility of a serious illness and then he addressed other possible causes.
Inadequate nutrition, caffeine and sugar consumption, and lack of sleep are common causes of fatigue. Yockey said.
Another factor contributing to
Dan Hemminger, Iowa City, Iowa, junior, said that he worked until 2:30 a.m. and could not go to bed at the same time every night.
Another facto.
fatigue is the
erratic sleep
schedule that
many students
keep.
enough protein, exercising regularly and getting at least seven hours of sleep can relieve the constant lethargic feeling that so many students have, he said.
Vockey stressed that caffeine and over-the-counter drugs such as No-Doz eventually would
Sleep deprivation
Here are common reasons for fatigue in students:
Inadequate nutrition
Vockey said erratic sleep schedules caused problems similar to jet lag.
caffeine and sugar
"When your internal clock gets confused it is like having jet lag without leaving Lawrence," Yockey said.
consumption
- lack of sleep
- an erratic sleep schedule
Students do not need to suffer from fatigue, he said. Eating
cause illness and additional fatigue.
"If you are truly sleep-deprived, there is nothing you can do to change this except get more sleep," he said. Shannon Hart, Gladstone, Mo., junior, said that she had taken Vivarin once to
stay awake for late-night studying, but it had made her more tired the next day.
"It does give you a harder crash, but, in the end all you are taking it for is to get past a certain point." she said.
GRE scores now available by phone
Brenden Sager
Kansan staff writer
Sarah Smith says she really isn't that anxious to get the results back from her Graduate Record Examinations early.
But with a new program offered by Educational Testing Services in Princeton, N.J. — the company that has produced the GRE for nearly 50 years — Smith, Olathe senior, has the option to get her scores by phone Nov.14 — two weeks before she would get them by mail.
Students in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada who took the Oct. 14 GRE are the first to have the option to call 1-800-GRE-5056 and get their scores, said Kevin Gonzalez, representative for Educational Testing Services. The cost for the scores by phone call is $10.
"People are already jumping the gun and calling to find out what their scores are," Gonzalez said. But the
phone system won't be operational until mid-November.
Educational Training Services decided to install the phone system based on the success of an existing system they have used for more than a year. With the previous system, students could call and request scores to be sent to additional institutions, he said. That number is 1-800-GRE-1130.
Students who don't get their scores through Educational Training Services by phone or by mail can get them through the University of Kansas Graduate School, said Virginia Sayler, office specialist.
One of the greatest concerns was making sure that the results were secure, she said. Students can receive their GRE scores from the
Sayler said that students usually went through KU's graduate school to have GRE scores sent to different universities or different schools and departments within KU.
University either in person with a KIID or by a written mail request.
"These are very confidential and secure scores," he said. But Gonzalez also said that he doubted that someone would want to pay $10 find out someone else's GRE scores.
Gonzalez said that the Educational Testing Service also was concerned with security.
If they did, he said Educational Testing Services would ask the caller the Social Security number and other personal information included on the test form.
But Smith said she probably wouldn't call.
"I really don't want to give them
"another $10 anyway," Smith said.
She said that the test cost about $80, which included receiving scores by mail. It cost $6 to call to ask for her scores to be sent to additional schools and $13 for each additional school beyond four, Smith said.
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Black Wallstreet:
A Lost Dream
Ron Wallace, film producer & co-author
Video Presentation & Lecture Thursday, November 9,1995 6:30-8:30p.m. Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
"The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wallstreet," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-Black communities in America, was bombed" by the ginny airplanes; "the first U.S. city to be bombed from the air." Burnings by mobs completely destroyed Black Wallstreet. "In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36 square block-Black-business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering--A model community destroyed, and a major African-American economic movement resounding destroyed."
Co-sponsored by:
Coe-sponsored by:
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Hall Center for the Humanities,
Department of Continuing Education, Black Student Union,
KU Department of Public Administration,
Advisory Committee on Diversity,
Department of Theatre & Film, Amanza-Spectrum of Students in
Journalism, School of Business, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.,
Multicultural Leadership Institute
Ron Wallace
Presents a New Play by KEN WILLARD
TOPPLE THE WORLD
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